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Officers of the Commerce Police Department stopped a kidnapping last week and helped reunite two juveniles with their mother in Smyrna. Lt. Travis Jarrell said officers received a lookout from the Smyrna Police Department that Israel James Curiel, 39, of Salisbury, NC, had driven down to Smyrna, picked up his two children and was headed back to ...
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When is $1.5 million reduction in revenue considered good news? When you were expecting a cut of about twice that much. That was the reaction from the Jackson County School System last week when it got preliminary figures showing that the tax digest for education fell by 4.83 percent this year. At one point, the system was bracing for a ...
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For most local public school students, this is the last week of summer freedom — as they’ll return to school next week. Students in the Jefferson City School System will return to class on Monday, Aug. 1, followed by Jackson County School System students on Thursday, Aug. 4. Commerce students, however, have another week off before heading ...
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A 23-year-old Commerce man faces simple battery charges after he allegedly struck the mother of his unborn baby a day after it miscarried. Details of the case are sketchy, but Commerce Police Department officers responded to a Martin Luther King Jr. Drive residence at 2:49 a.m. where a 29-year-old white female claimed that she and Bryan Oneil ...
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Three of the four public high schools in Jackson County failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under the initial assessment released last week by the Georgia Department of Education. Commerce, East Jackson and Jackson County high schools came up short of making AYP as required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Only Jefferson ...
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Commerce children will be able to experience a “beach party” Friday, July 29, without even leaving the town. The Commerce Downtown Development Authority will hold its annual beach party from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Spencer Park downtown. The event will feature a water slide, a bounce room, games and snow cones, and possibly face painting and a ...
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Thieves worked the Woodland Heights subdivision last Wednesday, but after entering one residence and numerous vehicles had little to show for it. According to the Commerce Police Department, the first complaint came from a 46-year-old white male Woodland Trail resident who said someone entered his pickup truck, went through its contents, lifted ...
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Modeling Murfreesboro? Shane Short said the Jackson County Area Chamber of Commerce and other county leaders will soon tour Murfreesboro, TN, which 10 years ago was very similar to Jackson County. Short, who brought up the tour at Friday’s Industrial Development Authority meeting, said Murfreesboro could serve as a guide toward handling ...
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Residents of a section of Harris Lord Cemetery Road are a step closer to getting county water. The Jackson County Water and sewerage Authority voted last Thursday night to enter a $51,560 contract with Engineering Management, Inc. (EMI) to design a water line extension to serve the area, where wells are going bad. While the vote does not ...
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